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单词 influence peddling
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Definition of influence peddling in English:

influence peddling

noun
mass nounNorth American
  • The use of position or political influence on someone's behalf in exchange for money or favours.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But political watchdog groups are harshly critical of the arrangement, saying it smacks of influence peddling in Washington.
    • But it eventually begins to dawn on him that sports is out of control, with too much money, sex, drugs, influence peddling, and politics.
    • The US also sees obstacles in the web of personal relations and influence peddling necessary to get business done.
    • But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling.
    • Did the livelihood of the richest 10% of the people improve disproportionately under the leadership of this person due to influence peddling?
    • It's also about an apparent culture of influence peddling and abuse of power in state government.
    • An appointed body, the theory went, would be insulated from influence peddling, and thus better equipped than politicians to safeguard the public.
    • Widespread graft and influence peddling among government officials are hampering economic development.
    • Those people are said to have achieved their positions through a combination of hard work, influence peddling, and corruption.
    • Ironically, however, they failed to democratize their parties due to closed-door policy making, influence peddling and eventual corruption after they gained power.
    • Quite apart from whether political influence peddling distorts criminal policy, does such peddling weaken the case for privatization?
    • Political influence peddling is a universal phenomenon, whether it is in a developed or developing world.
    • As long as there are institutions with lots of money and an interest in seeking rents and favors, there will be corruption, and more mundane influence peddling.
    • This doesn't excuse their influence peddling.
    • What can be done about such corruption and influence peddling?
    • Anyone who made money by drugs, cronyism, influence peddling with past regimes at the expense of Bahamians would be dispossessed and their fortunes returned to the Bahamian treasury.
    • This will reduce conflicts of interest, and influence peddling,’ he says.
    • As the state has grown, corruption, black marketeering and influence peddling have proliferated.
    • Here is the former head of the European Development Bank under investigation for influence peddling.
    • Rather, behind the vague slogan of ‘reform,’ they focused on such issues as political corruption and influence peddling in Washington.

Derivatives

  • influence peddler

  • noun
    North American
    • He really was the first of the modern influence peddlers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It will have to clear out the influence peddlers, corporate lobbyists, spin-doctors and fund-raisers and return to first principles.
      • No candidate is more scornful of the Washington insider class of lobbyists and influence peddlers.
      • ‘And while I'm doing that, I will crack down on wasteful and abusive officials and influence peddlers,’ she said.
      • Nearly once a month influence peddlers from different worlds gather to gossip, talk business, and schmooze at his Hollywood Hills home.
 
 

Definition of influence peddling in US English:

influence peddling

nounˈinflo͝oəns ˈpedliNGˈɪnflʊəns ˈpɛdlɪŋ
North American
  • The use of position or political influence on someone's behalf in exchange for money or favors.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As long as there are institutions with lots of money and an interest in seeking rents and favors, there will be corruption, and more mundane influence peddling.
    • Anyone who made money by drugs, cronyism, influence peddling with past regimes at the expense of Bahamians would be dispossessed and their fortunes returned to the Bahamian treasury.
    • Here is the former head of the European Development Bank under investigation for influence peddling.
    • Quite apart from whether political influence peddling distorts criminal policy, does such peddling weaken the case for privatization?
    • An appointed body, the theory went, would be insulated from influence peddling, and thus better equipped than politicians to safeguard the public.
    • Ironically, however, they failed to democratize their parties due to closed-door policy making, influence peddling and eventual corruption after they gained power.
    • Widespread graft and influence peddling among government officials are hampering economic development.
    • Those people are said to have achieved their positions through a combination of hard work, influence peddling, and corruption.
    • As the state has grown, corruption, black marketeering and influence peddling have proliferated.
    • It's also about an apparent culture of influence peddling and abuse of power in state government.
    • This will reduce conflicts of interest, and influence peddling,’ he says.
    • Did the livelihood of the richest 10% of the people improve disproportionately under the leadership of this person due to influence peddling?
    • Political influence peddling is a universal phenomenon, whether it is in a developed or developing world.
    • But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling.
    • This doesn't excuse their influence peddling.
    • But it eventually begins to dawn on him that sports is out of control, with too much money, sex, drugs, influence peddling, and politics.
    • What can be done about such corruption and influence peddling?
    • But political watchdog groups are harshly critical of the arrangement, saying it smacks of influence peddling in Washington.
    • Rather, behind the vague slogan of ‘reform,’ they focused on such issues as political corruption and influence peddling in Washington.
    • The US also sees obstacles in the web of personal relations and influence peddling necessary to get business done.
 
 
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